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March 2, 1937. A. s. WHEELBARGER El AL 2,072,413

REGISTER Filed Aug. 5, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 BY Georgy/[17. Da /75$.

ATTORNEY March 2, 1937. A. s. WHEELBARGER ET AL 2,072,413

REGISTER Filed Aug. 5, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 qtr WW.

,1 TTORNEY Patented Mar. 2, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE REGISTER Ohio, as trustee Application August 5, 1929, Serial No. 383,460

11 Claims.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a plurality of counters to indicate the number of registrations made by each one of a plurality of clerks in a store or the number of sales 5 made by the various departments thereof. When used as a register for transportation purposes the various counters might be used to indicate the number of tickets sold of the various classes or the number of tickets sold to various destinations. For the purpose of illustration we have shown the invention as applied to that type of register disclosed in the application of Albert S. Wheelbarger and Grover C. Coil, Serial Number 65,532, filed October 29, 1925.

Another object of the invention is to provide a visual indicator which is set to show the class of transaction which is going to be recorded. A suitable mechanism is provided between such indicator and the counter corresponding to the class of transaction indicated by said indicator so that when the machine is operated the proper counter will be actuated.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front view of a register 2 showing our invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction of the arrow. This view is partly fragmentary and certain parts are omitted for the sake of clearness.

Fig. 4 is an elevational view of the operating mechanism for the counters taken on the line XX of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow.

A lever I is secured to a sleeve 2 rotatably mounted on a shaft 3. An arm 4 is loosely mounted on said shaft 3 and the upper end of this arm engages the lever I as clearly shown in Fig. 1 so that said lever I and arm 4 move as a unit. Secured to the arm 4 is an arm 5 which is secured to a segmental gear 8 which meshes with a rack 'I carried by a reciprocating bar 9 which carries at its lower end a rack I having teeth extending in the opposite direction from the teeth of the rack 'I. A guide pin 8 is secured to one of the sidewalls II of the machine, which guide pin retains the rack I in mesh with the segmental gear 6. g A second guide 'pin I2 is carried by the sidewall II near the lower end of the bar 9 and on the opposite side of the bar is a guide lug l3 secured to said sidewall I I. The lower end of the bar 9 is guided by the guide pin I2 and guide lug I3 so as to retain the rack I0 in constant engagement with a pinion I4 mounted on a stud shaft .2755 I carried by a lug I8 extending from an endwall ll of the counter frame.

The pinion I4 is constantly in mesh with a pinion I8 mounted on a stud I9 which stud is mounted in the endwall IT. The pinion I8 meshes with a pinion 28 secured to a sleeve 2| mounted on a shaft 41 in the endwall I1 and in the opposite endwall 22. The sleeve 2| has secured thereto 5 flanged disks 23 each of which is provided with a cut-out portion 24. By referring to Fig. 1 it will be noted that the cutout portions 24 are in staggered relation with each other and the cut-out portion of one of the flanged disks 23 is spaced about 60 from the cut-out portion of the adjacent flanged disk. This cut-out portion of one of the disks is simply that the flange part thereof is omitted or cut away for a short distance for a purpose which will be hereinafter described.

The machine is provided with an operating handle 25 which may be manually rotated or if desired the machine may be driven electrically. The handle 25 is connected to a gear 26 mounted on a shaft 21 carried by the sidewall I I which gear meshes with and drives a gear 28 secured to a shaft 29 journaled in the sidewall II and which shaft also carries a gear 38 secured thereto, which gear 38 meshes with and drives a gear 3| mounted on a shaft 32, which gear 3I meshes with and drives a gear 33 mounted on a shaft 34 journaled in a plate 35 which is an extension of the sidewall II. Between the plate 35 and the gear 33 and secured to the shaft 34 and gear 33 is a cam or eccentric 36 which constantly engages the 0pposite sides of an eccentric yoke 31 which forms an extension of a lever 38 pivoted on a pin 39 carried by said plate 35. A spring 4|] is attached to said lever 38 so as to tend to pull the. lefthand end of the lever 38 as viewed in Fig. 4 upwardly and the right-hand end thereof downwardly. The lever 38 extends forwardly through a rectangular aperture 4| in an actuating plate 42 which actuating plate 42 is provided with elongated slots 43 and 44 through which extend guide pins 45 carried by the backwall 46 of the counter frame. This pin and slot arrangement as best shown in Fig. 3 serves to guide the actuating plate 42 so as to tend to eliminate any twisting movement thereof.

The eccentric 36 makes one revolution for each operation of the machine and therefore raises and lowers the right-hand end of the lever 38 as viewed in Fig. 4 so that the actuating plate 42 is raised and lowered once for each operation of the machine. Inasmuch as the aperture 4| through which the lever 38 projects is not in the center of the operating plate 42 there will be a tendency of such plate to whip, that is for one end of it to rise in advance of the other end which tendency the pins and slots 43 and 44 tend to overcome but in order to entirely eliminate this tendency we have provided arms 48 secured to the shaft 41 which arms project through apertures 49 in the extreme opposite ends of the actuating plate 42. This construction insures that the opposite ends of the actuating plate will be raised and lowered simultaneously and there will be no lagging of one end behind the other.

Mounted on the backwall 46 are a plurality of counters 50 which may be of any suitable construction such as the well-known Veeder counter. In the present instance we have shown 10 such counters. A face View of these counters is shown in Fig. 1 in which it will be noted that five of these counters are arranged in a top row and five counters directly beneath the upper counters. All of these counters are of the same construction and are of the well-known type in which the units wheel is connected to a shaft 5|. Secured to each of these shafts 5| is an arm 52 which is normally pulled upwardly by means of a spring 53 secured to said arm and to a pin 54 securedto the backwall 46. The rear end of this arm 52 projects beneath a bar 55 connectingthe ends of the actuating plate 42 and forming a part thereof. The arm 52 is provided with a lug 56 which normally lies beneath the flange of the disk 23. Each of the group of units wheels of the lower counters is connected to a shaft 51 to whichis alsosecured a three-armed lever 58. One of these arms 59 projects beneath a bar 60 connecting the lower ends of the actuating plate 42. A spring 6| connects a second arm 62 to a pin 63 carried by the backwali 46 which spring tends to hold the arm '59 of said lever 58 against the lower edge of the bar 60. Thethird'arm 64 of said lever is provided with a lug 65 which is normally within the inner periphery of theflange of the disk 23.

It will be understood that there are five arms 52, one for each of the five shafts 5| of the upper counters and five arms 59, one for each of the five shafts 51 of the lower counters. It will furthermore be noted'that when the actuating plate 42 is raised by the lever 38 each of these arms will actuate their respective counters by means of the springs 53 and 6| unless they are restrained from so doing. However, as the lugs 56 and'65 are within the inner periphery of the flange of the disks 23 this actuation will be prevented unless the cut-out portions 24 of the flanged disk is 'so positioned as to permit the lugs 56 or 65 to pass therethrough. As above mentioned, these cut-away portions are in staggered relation so that only one of the counters '50 can be actuated when the plate 42 is raised.

A segmental gear 66 is secured to the lever l which segmental gear meshes with and drives a pinion 61 secured to a gear 68 which meshes with and drives a gear 69 secured to an indicator drum 16 on which drum may be suitable characters such as clerks A, B, C, etc. or abbreviations of No sale, Paid out, Received on account and the like.

It is to be noted that-the lever l operates gearing which positions the indicator drum 10 and also rotates the sleeve 2| so as to position the cut-away portion of one of the disks 23 such that the counter corresponding to the indication on the indicator drum will be actuated when the machine is operated.

Having now described our invention, we claim:

1. In a machine of the type described, a pair of counters, means tending to operate both of said counters each time the machine is operated, a single disk for said pair of counters and a flange forming a part of said disk to prevent one or the other of said counters from being operated and means whereby said disk may be ad- J'usted.

2. In a machine of the type described, a pair of counters, a single disk for said pair of counters, means to adjust said disk, a flange carried by said disk, said flange being provided with an aperture, a pair of levers having a part of each projecting within the inner periphery of said flangeand each connected to one of said counters, and means tending to operate both of said levers each time the machine is operated, said flange preventing the operation of one or both of said levers according to the position of said aperture.

3. In a machine of the type described, a plurality of counters, a plurality of adjustable disks, flanges carried by said disks each of said flanges being provided with an aperture, the aperture;

of any disk being out of alignment with the aperture in any other disk, means including arms cooperating with said flanges and tending to operate all of said counters on each actuation of the machine, said apertured flanges serving as;

a means to prevent the actuation of all but one of said counters.

4. In a machine of the type described, a plurality of counters, means tending to operate all of said counters on every actuation of said ma-J chine, a plurality of disks, flanges carried by said disks, each of said flanges being provided with an aperture, the apertures of any disk being out of alignment with the aperture of any other disk, means whereby said disks may be rotated so as to change the position of said apertures, a pair of levers each having a part projecting within the inner periphery of each of said flanges, said flanges preventing the operation of all of said levers except the one adjacent to the sitioned aperture.

5. In a machine, a plate, means whereby said plate is raised and lowered each time the machine is operated, a plurality of counters, a plurality of levers, each lever operatively connected to its respective counter and normally held in depressed position by said plate, means to select one lever, means whereby all of said levers except the selected one are restrained from actuation, and means whereby when the plate is raised the selected lever will be actuated to operate its associated counter.

6. In a machine, a plate, means whereby said plate is raised and lowered each time the machine is operated, a plurality of counters, a plu-,

rality of levers, each lever operatively connected to its respective counter and normally held in depressed position by said plate, means to select one lever, means whereby all of said levers except the selected one are restrained from actua properly p0 flange serving as a means to prevent the actuation of one of said counters and which when adjusted to another position will release the first counter and prevent the actuation of the other of said counters.

8. In a machine of the type described, two counters, separate means tending to operate each of said counters on each actuation of said machine, and a disk provided with a notched flange to prevent the operation of one of said counters when the disk is in one position and preventing the operation of the other of said counters when the disk is in another position and means to adjust the disk so as to release either one of the operating means.

9. In a machine of the type described, two counters, means tending to operate both of said counters on each actuation of said machine, a disk provided with a notched flange to prevent the operation of either or both of said counters,

and means to adjust the position of said notched flange so that either counter may be actuated.

10. In a machine of the type described, a plurality of pairs of counters, a plurality of adjustable disks, a flange carried by each disk, each flange being provided with an aperture, the apertures in the various flanges being staggered with relation to each other, there being one disk for each pair of counters, and means whereby the counter corresponding to a selected aperture will be actuated when the machine is operated.

11. In a machine of the type described, a plurality of counters, spring actuated means tending to operate each of said counters on each actuation of said machine, an adjustable disk provided with a perforated flange, said perforated flange serving as a means to restrain all of said springs but a selected one.

ALBERT S. WHEELBARGER. GEORGE H. DARST. 

